Doves and Dreams
Doves and Dreams is organised in partnership with the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
27 January - 22 April 2007
Beaten lead, mirror glass; wood frame
s. and d.b.l.: ‘FRANCES MACNAIR. 1921’
71.2 x 59.7 (28 x 23 ½)
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
This is Macdonald’s last known work. It returns to the designs of the 1890s for the format of a beaten metal frame and the subject matter of a sleeping/dead woman.
The subject is Arachne, a nymph who attempted suicide having crossed the goddess Minerva and was turned into a spider. The subject perhaps presaged Macdonald’s own death later that year.